Corridor Transport Observatory Guidelines
The Northern Corridor, connecting East Africa to the World through the port of Mombasa, is one of the oldest corridor authorities in Africa, as it was established in 1985. Throughout its years of existence, it has been a source of ideas and knowled...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/19157538/corridor-transport-observatory-guidelines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17544 |
| Summary: | The Northern Corridor, connecting East
Africa to the World through the port of Mombasa, is one of
the oldest corridor authorities in Africa, as it was
established in 1985. Throughout its years of existence, it
has been a source of ideas and knowledge that contributed to
the thinking on trade facilitation. To a large extent, it is
the birthplace of the concept of corridor transport
observatory, and through successive models and revisions, it
helped shape what transport observatories are. Transport
Observatories emerged as the result of the efforts made over
the years to address the specific challenges faced by
landlocked developing countries. Most of these countries
rely heavily on overseas markets as outlets for their
productions and as source for their imports, but for that,
they must transit through a coastal country. They are at a
disadvantage when it comes to competing on equal terms with
other economies for integrating into the world market. The
handicaps attached to that remoteness are well known and
many: a longer time to import or export, a time rarely
predictable, higher costs, with sometimes a double toll when
input into production must also be imported. Moreover,
little can be done by the landlocked countries alone to
improve the conditions of crossing transit countries.
Indeed, transit trade flows may even be considered as a
nuisance or even a threat when similar economies are
competing for similar markets. |
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